National heroes? Afghanistan 2010: Troup leader and Corporal Raymond Gulliksen is ready for combat, even while he sleeps.- I just can’t go around thinking about it all the time. If something terrible happens, that’s it.

Photo: Håvard Bjelland, Bergens Tidende

The boys in the forest had been training and waiting impatiently to mobilise when the Germans capitulated. But there was no fighting in May 1945. On the 11th of May the Norwegian resistance forces took control of Akershus Fortress. After a peaceful handover the German flag was lowered and the Norwegian flag raised. This has given “the boys in the forest”, as the resistance forces were affectionately called, a unique position in Norwegian history.